Mozilla tested the Warming Tab when switching tabs
Mozilla is testing a new feature called the Warming Tab in the hope of improving the tab conversion process.
According to the description of this feature, the Warming Tab will track the mouse pointer and start 'drawing' the content inside the tab when users hover over it. Firefox assumes users want to click to view that tab and render before they actually click.
'This precious few milliseconds is used to render and upload, so when you actually click, the tab is ready,' said Mike Conley, one of Firefox's feature engineers.
Don't confuse the Warming Tab with loading or preloading tabs. The tab has already been preloaded on the browser, this feature is just 'drawing', rendering the content inside the tab (the activity takes place each time a user switches tabs).
The effect of the Warming Tab depends on the case
Conley said that this feature helps to increase the experience of using Firefox between tab transfers, in some cases often causing the page to be completely blank or loading the page completely before downloading it in full.
Turn on the Warming Tab feature on Mozilla Firefox
'In many cases, I don't think this feature will have a big impact , ' Conley said. ' In my opinion, we can render and load layers on the page very quickly, so these changes will be hard to recognize. But there are some pages that can't render and load classes so quickly and that's when the Warming Tab helps. '
He wants to mention websites that run fixed CSS effects, often take time to load and display on pages, or pages with multiple SVG images need more time to calculate and display.
As mentioned, the effect is only a few milliseconds, but in some cases, it also helps you not have to look at the blank page or the page that doesn't load completely when switching tabs.
The Warming tab is used on Firefox Nightly
Currently this feature is tested on Firefox Nightly and is not enabled by default. Go to about: config page and find browser.tabs.remote.warmup.enabled then double click and switch status to True.
See more:
- Firefox will slow down the process of loading user tracking scripts
- Firefox is about to mark all HTTP pages as unsafe
- How to enable Tor features in Firefox increases security when browsing the web
You should read it
- New features in Firefox 87
- 6 new features in Firefox 13 you should know
- Firefox 57 Quantum is here, great Mozilla!
- What's new in Firefox 9?
- Mozilla launched Firefox 11.0 for iOS, which turned on anti-tracking by default
- Firefox 102 can automatically remove tracking codes from URLs
- Firefox 56 released with a new screen capture, settings panel
- Firefox updates a host of exciting new features to entice users
May be interested
- Mozilla unintentionally revealed information from developersdatabase errors have caused more than 76,000 users' email addresses in the mozilla network of leaked networks.
- 7 advantages when switching from PC to Mac you may not knowplease refer to 7 advantages when switching from pc to mac, you may not know below!
- Firefox launched two new utilities, Price Wise and Email Tabsmozilla has just launched two tests for the test pilot program on its firefox browser.
- 5 changes on Firefox 15the latest version of mozilla's browser, firefox 15, adds a few new features and is committed to providing faster boot speeds and reduced memory consumption.
- Firefox will soon have vertical tabs, profile management, and moremozilla announced a roadmap to bring some important features to firefox. notable additions will include tab groups, vertical tabs, and a more robust profile management system.
- Disable Fast User Switching on Windows 7, 8 and 10fast user switching allows users to log in to the computer when another user is still logged in. can say this feature is quite useful for users. but what also has two sides, besides the positive side, also has drawbacks. suppose if another user is logged in and you cannot start or shut down the computer, the risk of losing opened data or files is very high.
- Global warming can weaken wind power, a study predictsdiscussion on renewable energy, focusing on the impact of global warming has just announced a fever-causing information.
- Mozilla is about to launch a new browser for developers on November 10mozilla's new web browser will target users who are developers and help provide them with a more efficient tool to work.
- Firefox 55, 56 browser can open 1,500 tabs easilycan't run the browser when opening more than 10 tabs? it's time to consider using a new version of firefox.
- Why you shouldn't 'warm up' your car engine in cold weather?some experts say that warming up your car engine on a cold day is one of the biggest misconceptions about winter driving and can cost you a lot of time.